Sentences with phrase «levels than males»

(ref) In the case of moxidectin, female dogs also develop slightly higher blood levels than males.

All else being equal, female students seem to perform at higher levels than males in reading and at the same level in math.

Female offspring had higher leptin levels than males, whereas adiponectin did not differ but was inversely related to BPA in males.

Females working in forensic science labs were almost two times more likely to report high stress levels than males, according to the study, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Consistent with that result, the researchers found that certain regions of the X chromosome in human female B cells, including regions that contain immunity - related genes, were expressed at higher levels than male cells.

Not exact matches

«The high - level women I talk to very consistently say they spend a lot more time than their male colleagues did getting to know people, getting to know about their personal lives,» law professor Joan C. Williams tells Fortune, seconding the idea.

At the end of World War II, researchers starved 36 young male volunteers for 24 weeks, giving them a low - fat diet limited to just 1,600 calories a day, which was 600 to 1,500 calories fewer than their body needed (depending on their level of daily activity) to maintain a healthy weight.

But women who've already fought their way into good jobs — only to be paid less than their male counterparts — surely appreciate the effort to fix the gap on an employee - by - employee level.

Research published in September 2011 by the Level Playing Field Institute (LPFI) revealed that hidden biases within the I.T. workplace caused women and blacks to have negative workplace experiences far more often than their male and white counterparts.

In pitches, Cohen would unveil the startup's bra prototypes, but more often than not, the discussions would devolve into Mad Men clichés — male VCs calling in their female assistants and junior - level associates to evaluate the startup's worthiness.

Male MBAs are hired into higher - level positions right out of school and earn, on average, $ 4,600 more per year in their first job than their female counterparts.

Females actually make better wrestlers at that level, as they are generally more flexible and have a lower center of gravity so they can grapple and get out of holds easier than the males of similar weight class.

In 2003, University of Texas psychoacoustics specialist Dennis McFadden found that when measuring the way the brain reacts to sound, lesbians fell in between heterosexual men and straight women, meaning they are exposed to higher than normal levels of male hormone in utero.

Employers are also more likely to «top up» Maternity Pay levels than Paternity or Shared Parental Leave pay levels, supporting female employees, but not their male colleagues, to take leave.

Breast feeding for less than one month increased the incidence of respiratory syncytial virus infections, 10 as did male gender, room sharing, and mothers with lower level of education, but non-wheezing lower respiratory infections were not related to breast feeding patterns at any time in the first year in the same study.26

At the Federal Level all adult males are required to sign up for selective services, which means that in times that require more troops than available, they can be required to serve in the military (there are exceptions due to individual issues.

In 2010, there were relatively more females (53.0 %) than males (40.5 %) with Primary school and JSS (Junior Secondary School) / JHS (Junior High School) as their highest level of education.

These epigenetic tweaks were then passed onto male pups, which produced higher levels of blood sugar - generating proteins in their livers than mice sired by unstressed fathers.

One possible mechanism is that high glucose levels in the body of a well - fed woman favour survival of male rather than female embryos.

The male participants would normally have shown a slight nighttime drop in testosterone levels anyway, because the body doesn't need it during sleep, but on election night, they departed dramatically from this routine: Obama voters» levels did not fall as they should have, whereas those of McCain and Barr backers dropped more than would have been expected.

The researchers found that male rats have inherently higher levels of endocannabinoids in their brains than females, so trying to give the males a little boost did not cause any measurable changes.

Moreover, artificially increasing or decreasing testosterone levels within the normal range usually just reinforces previous patterns of aggression rather than dramatically transforming behavior; beta males may still be milquetoasts, and alphas still bullies.

While male and female participants performed about the same in terms of accuracy and reaction time, the neural pathways that were activated were different: Women showed greater activity in both hemispheres in the prefrontal cortex — in regions implicated in language functions and higher - level cognitive functions — than men.

In a study published last fall, researchers showed that male prairie voles that had been separated from their female partners for four days — a much shorter amount of separation time than researchers had previously found to affect the voles» physiology — exhibited depressionlike behavior and had increased levels of corticosterone, the rodent equivalent of the human stress hormone cortisol.

Males with generally higher testosterone levels are known to have thicker brow ridges and cranial bones than men with lower testosterone.

They also had blood tests that measured levels of important hormones, including their male hormones — testosterone and dihydrotestosterone — and two types of the female hormone estrogen (estradiol and estrone) that are present in men in lower amounts than in women.

Many blue - chip researchers received «tiny» awards, whereas the success rates and award levels for both female and younger researchers were significantly lower than for male, more elderly counterparts, says geneticist Janet Rossant of The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto in Canada, and a former member of CIHR's governing council.

They found that male owls living within 0.41 kilometers of a major logging road or a patch of forest that had been clear - cut within the last 10 years had corticosterone levels almost two times higher than owls living more than 3 kilometers away.

Merluzzi surveyed 145 management - level employees regarding workplace dynamics at two large U.S. firms that were primarily male - dominated environments, with women representing less than one - third of the workforce and under 15 percent of the senior management.

Male adolescents are the top fructose consumers, deriving between 15 to 23 percent of their calories from fructose — three to four times more than the maximum levels recommended by the American Heart Association.

For all age groups, males generally had higher activity levels than females, particularly high - intensity activity, but after midlife, these levels dropped off sharply compared to females.

Among adults 60 years and older, males were more sedentary and had lower light - intensity activity levels than females.

What's more, in fights between live males, Buchholz found that only snood length — which may in part be determined by a bird's testosterone level — was a good predictor of victory, more reliable even than weight.

The team found that the highest incidences of illness occurred in the oldest and lowest - ranking males, rather than the highest - ranking alpha males, as might be expected if the alpha males» higher stress levels were suppressing their immune systems.

Hau adds that while the alpha males show higher levels of stress - related hormones in their feces, this might be due to numerous short spikes of acute stress episodes rather than one long, continuous state of chronic stress such as humans low on the totem pole might face.

This is necessary because recent research at the NCAA levels revealed that women coaches are more likely to perceive gender bias than their male counterparts.

Sure enough, males who bleated longer sported higher levels of testosterone and other «male» sex hormones than those with shorter bleats, the team reports online tomorrow in Biology Letters.

Indeed, these boys reached puberty earlier, were taller and more muscular, and had higher levels of testosterone in their blood as adults than did males who gained weight more slowly as infants.

Specifically, females without autism have a slightly higher level of RORA in the frontal cortex of the brain than males without autism, while the levels of the protein are comparably lower in the brain of both males and females with autism.

In 2008 she showed that in the pre-embryonic stage of development, males have lower survival rates than females when glucose levels are low, causing more females to be born.

Psychology professor Rebecca Craft showed that, thanks to their estrogen levels, female rats are at least 30 percent more sensitive than males to the pain - relieving qualities of THC — the key active ingredient in cannabis.

So when Drake and his colleagues measured the RNA levels — a direct link to how much of a gene is being produced — in the genes of 334 mice, he didn't expect to find more than a few variations that might help explain why males and females have such different rates of cardiovascular disease and diabetes or why they react differently to certain drugs.

«But when we compared the average levels of incivility reported, female - instigated incivility was reported more often than male - instigated incivility by women in our three studies.»

In addition, despite the genetic deletion, the female deletion mice have higher levels of ERK1 than the male deletion mice.

Male job applicants who are perceived to have high levels of leadership potential are rated as a better employment prospect than a female applicant with proven leadership track record.

The emotion control center of the brain, the amygdala, shows significantly higher levels of activation in males viewing sexual visual stimuli than females viewing the same images, according to a Center for Behavioral Neuroscience study led by Emory University psychologists Stephan Hamann and Kim Wallen.

The p - tau levels are higher in female than in male mice, and the increased p - tau was consistent with a proportional decrease in the post-synaptic marker levels analyzed.

Women show a closer association between educational level and hypertension or diabetes mellitus than males: a secondary analysis from the Austrian HIS

High levels of male - male courtship are widespread in many fly species, but not in Drosophila melanogaster, the tiny insect that has been a mainstay of genetic research for more than a century.

Independents have a significantly higher level of testosterone than Satellite and Faeder males and an altered regulation may partially explain this difference and the altered behaviour.